FORT STEWART, Ga. — President Barack Obama reached out to a generation of young soldiers Friday as he added new protections for veterans and mil...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 04.25.2012
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Courting college voters, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress needs to keep the cost of college loans from skyr...
AP | By BEN FELLER | Posted 04.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Wooing young voters, President Barack Obama is on a blitz to keep the cost of college loans from soaring for millions of students, takin...
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 05.01.2012
Asking colleges and states to take on more of the cost of reforms will lead to bigger tuition increases, not smaller ones. Something must be done, but experienced educators will tell you this "new" plan isn't the way to go.
Robert Reich | Posted 04.30.2012
Santorum needn't worry. America is already making it harder for young people of modest means to attend college. Public higher education is being starved, and the middle class will shrink even more as a result.
Posted 02.27.2012
The Following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. Rick Santorum is off base when he criticizes college as a place where young people lose the...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON — Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushin...
AP | Posted 01.25.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is proposing to keep college affordable by yanking federal aid from colleges that don't keep tuition down and pro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2012
With Romney's GOP rivals now loudly calling for him to release his tax returns, the logical push-back against President Barack Obama is for the White ...
AP | By MARTHA IRVINE | Posted 11.17.2011
CHICAGO -- The young people in the ad look dissatisfied and pouty. Barack Obama's voice and the words "winning the future," from one of his old campai...
Posted 05.31.2011
Endurance we can believe in? According to a new survey from the Harvard Institute of Politics, young adults still overwhelmingly like President Bar...
Posted 05.25.2011
Despite his lofty claim to fame as Barack Obama's favorite professor, Roger Boesche doesn't let the compliment inflate his ego -- or define his teachi...
Posted 05.25.2011
President Barack Obama pledged support to reestablish America as the global leader in higher education in his State of the Union address last night. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In a conference call with college journalists on Monday, President Obama made a direct pitch to the young voters who flocked to his campaign two years...
AP/Huffington Post | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
AUSTIN, Texas -- Deep in the land of George W. Bush, President Barack Obama swept through Texas on Monday to gather Democratic cash and votes, poundin...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Photos of President Obama as a college student are rare. But 21 of them are about to be shown publicly. They come from a collection of thirty-six phot...
Time Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011
Time magazine has posted a slideshow of Obama's college years, taken by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, to run with its selection of Obama ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
MoveOn.org released a new television ad on Tuesday that, like some other Democratic-leaning groups this election season, encourages youth to persuade ...
James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, each in their own way, tell a story about America, who we are and where we are going. These are their personal narratives.
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 04.28.2012